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I found a load of negatives from the 80’s recently as we were tidying up. I always knew I still had them somewhere as I could vaguely remember pictures around that time, but not all of them. It’s interesting though looking at stuff that’s nearly 30 years old. In fact it’s a bit mad. The same themes come though more or less; friends (not all here anymore, sadly); 2 dimensional landscapes; pictures from moving cars, general stuff. Most things from now were there then, bar seagulls […]

Something a bit different. My better half organised a week long pop- up Art Hub over at the Chelmsley Wood town centre in an un-let shop a couple of weeks ago. It was under the B37 Project banner (it’s on Facebook if you search for it). B37 Projects aim is to support local projects in art, food and the environment. As part of it she pestered me to do something. In the end we gave out 20 disposable cameras to people […]

It’s colloquially called a Johnny Rook, but it’s actually a “striated caracara”, a native Falkland bird of prey. I’ve started going through all the negatives from the Falklands now and there’s some OK ones. I like this picture though as it was overhead and in the sun when I took it. Perfect spot to get shat on and apparently that’s lucky. Not just Johnny Rook shit mind, but bird shit in general. Last week we went away for a few days and I […]

Another infrequent post from down South. I’ve been slowly working through photographs and I’ll post some more over the next few weeks. I’ve said before that living in a place lends a very different viewpoint than a quick stopover or even a week long holiday. Subjects that initially seem interesting or important dissolve away as you become part of the landscape that you are living in. I’ve seen this photo before, not as an actual photograph, but as a view from behind […]

Another daylight session from back in February. In photography I’m generally not one for complicating things with too many variables. The subject, a simple location (a room with somewhere to stand, sit or lie), two cameras (one with a 50mm on the front, the other with something different), Tri-X in both and a handheld meter. And daylight. Doesn’t even really need to be much of that around. I suppose I could reduce it further and have only one camera, and then […]

Oddly, posting on the 29th February seems right after looking at the date of my last post (December 31st). I’ll try harder to post more regularly. I spent a few hours in the company of Mia Liberum recently, a model who combines art nude with anonymity. I quite like the anonymity, it’s a way of both de- eroticising nude photography and eroticising it. Without the eye contact you (as a viewer) don’t get the full story, but can fill in […]

As the title says, Happy New Year! Apologies for the lack of posting it’s been fairly hectic since Berlin what with going overseas again. Berlin was good fun: flashbacks on the walking tour after eating too much currywurst and drinking berliner beer, but what a city, definitely going back. I’ll be overseas again off and on throughout 2017, but will post pictures as they come through. I’ll be in the Falklands in the South Atlantic, so should be interesting subject […]

We’re off to Berlin. I entered the Berlin PhotoWerks eye contact competition a couple of months ago. Didn’t win mind, but was shortlisted for my black & white portraits, so we’re going over for the opening and have a few days in Berlin- never been, but it looks like an interesting city. I’m pretty chuffed, so here are my 5 pictures for the exhibition at the project space at PhotoWerk Berlin from the 2nd November. All shot with Tri-X and […]

Some recent work, sorry been very busy! Using the holga again this time with Kodak Portra (but developed in rodinal 1:100, hence the black and white). I tried it with out of date XP2 and it seemed to work OK, so when it came to developing all the films, I just put the portra in the B&W pile on autopilot. I have to pinch myself sometimes when I see the results of the hola though. Idiot focussing and no controls, […]

Haven’t seen these for a while, but they look distinctly like Walsh PB tread marks. An opportunity to climb Clougha Pike came my way a few weeks ago. i haven’t been up this fell just outside Lancaster for years, but spent many a time running up it, walking up it, cycling around it and generally just being on it when i was much younger. Not much had changed really: still muddy, still windy and still a nice wild place. It […]